As teachers, we plan lessons and units that engage our students on a variety of cognitive levels. In order to use knowledge, students must be able to access key facts and perform basic skills. Deep understanding is indicated by applying basic understandings unprompted in more complex ways. One way to understand the different cognitive levels is to consider tasks in light of established hierarchies of understanding, such as Bloom's taxonomy. The ASCD Lexicon of Learning defines Bloom's Taxonomy as:
Bloom's has been recast many times for many reasons. These revisions provide teachers with a useful tool to plan instruction that addresses student thinking on different levels.
Resources Related to Bloom's Taxonomy
Bloom's Taxonomy Tutorials - Online tutorials on the Colorado Community College wiki on Boom's and using Bloom's taxonomy to design online activities.
BloomWritingObjectives.pdf - Several resources related to using Bloom's technology, including a guide for writing better objectives.
Stick Pick - An IPhone app for helping teachers choose students to answer questions and prompts the teacher with questions stems that vary with Bloom's level.
Miguel Guhlin, a Texas technology coordinator and edtech blogger, argues that it is time to reconsider Bloom's taxonomy in light of new online tools. His take in this is on his blog
Mike Fisher created a Digigogy, or a Blooms-like representation of Web 2.0 online tools based on what types of thinking they support.
Bloom's has been recast many times for many reasons. These revisions provide teachers with a useful tool to plan instruction that addresses student thinking on different levels.
Resources Related to Bloom's Taxonomy
Other Versions of Bloom's Taxonomy
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